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Getting Started With Family History

Posted on 30 April 2012 | No Comments
Browsing through the huge FamilySearch /LDS sites turned up a fascinating new page, titled “Getting Started with Family History”. “Four Easy Steps to Help You Begin”. The page actually does...
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FamilySearch Wiki ~ Rookie Mistakes Explained

Posted on 24 April 2012 | No Comments
We were all genealogy rookies at some point in time. Those of us who passed through this phase decades ago were actually more fortunate than most beginning genealogy researchers today. ...
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FamilySearch Research Communities

Posted on 9 April 2012 | No Comments
Many genealogy researchers are not aware of the Research Communities that have been created on Facebook and Skype by FamilySearch. They offer a potential wealth of genealogy research knowledge to...
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Tracing Your Ancestors in Ireland

Posted on 7 April 2012 | No Comments
If you are searching for your Irish ancestors, the online publication “Tracing your ancestors in Ireland” by Design Tactics should be on your “Must Read” list. It is an excellent...
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FamilySearch Wiki ~ User and Talk Pages

Posted on 28 March 2012 | No Comments
Many visitors to the FamilySearch Research Wiki have created user accounts on the site, yet they have failed to create their user and user talk pages so others can interact...
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Google Search Tricks for Genealogists

Posted on 9 March 2012 | No Comments
Tony Vincent created an excellent Google Search Tricks presentation on Prezi that should rate a bookmark by all genealogy researchers. All too often we spend hours searching through the results...
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Ancestors Found Using FamilySearch Wiki

Posted on 12 January 2012 | No Comments
Family History research tests or knowledge of research methods, tools and resources. We sometimes think we know where to look for information about our ancestors only to find that the...
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Using The FamilySearch Wiki

Posted on 9 January 2012 | 2 Comments
Fran Jensen created an excellent slide show presentation that shows how to use the FamilySearch Wiki including several associated research success stories. I started to create a similar presentation but...
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Google Books To The Rescue ~ Again

Posted on 12 December 2011 | No Comments
I spend an inordinate amount of time researching my ancestry and am familiar with most primary and secondary source materials on the shelves of libraries and online. For some unfathomable...
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Scottish Church Records ~ FamilySearch Wiki

Posted on 28 November 2011 | No Comments
Tracing ancestors in Scotland who didn’t belong to the predominant religion isn’t easy most of the time. I looked for several of my lineal Scots families for years with little...
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